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Lawmakers fear voter backlash on fiscal cliff

“In the short term, Republicans are blamed more than Democrats,” Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), the incoming chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, acknowledged. “I think in the long term, the political damage is to the president and to Democrats.”…

A number of Democrats — several of whom will face voters in 2014 — worry no one will be unscathed, including President Barack Obama. If taxes skyrocket and deep cuts take effect, Obama could preside over an eroding economy that could torpedo his second-term agenda as he tries to broaden his presidency to focus on issues like immigration reform and gun control. Voters, Democrats in the Senate fear, will take it out on them as well.

“I don’t blame people at home for wondering what in the heck is going on in the nation’s capital,” said Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who is up for reelection in 2014. “It’s hard to explain. … I don’t think it looks good for either party.”…

“You gotta basically start over – a new Congress – and you’re going to have to have 60 votes in the Senate,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the incoming GOP whip. “I think it’s all part of a plan to ultimately go off the cliff and have a whole bunch of new revenue and make it much harder to make tax rates low through the course of the year.”

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Throw them all out, the entire lot of them.

I hope they dive over the cliff, heads first, Obama first, Boehner and Reid/Pelosi next, and so forth.

Wake up AmeriKa. YOU are scrooming yourself. It’s all self-inflicted and your children and grandchildren will pitchfork you, as they should, for justice and their future, to remedy what you have done to them.

Well I can not understand why voters should be chapped? Afterall you worthless worms have has years/months to do something, anything and you did squat! NOW you go down to T-15 seconds to DO something? The whole blooming bunch stinks! STINKS! You want our funds and votes when you come up for re-election? WELL, you might be surprised because YOU STINK! And YES I am mad as he11 and getting madder by the minute!
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Romney’s campaign was based on the idea that not losing was more important than winning. He never made effective attacks on Obama, while simultaneously taking the base for granted. It was a recipe for failure.

Romney’s campaign was based on the idea that not losing was more important than winning. He never made effective attacks on Obama, while simultaneously taking the base for granted. It was a recipe for failure.

Senators from both parties are bracing for a furious voter backlash if American taxpayers begin to receive thinner paychecks in the new year, and that dynamic is what’s driving Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to make a last-ditch effort on the fiscal cliff.

For McConnell, the concern is more urgent

Politico getting tired yet, carrying all that water for them?

Oh yeah, they are suddenly worried about a strategy that included getting exactly to this point, so voices like Politico could massage the propaganda monkey